Immanuel Kant 1795 · Königsberg
Tea at the breakfast table
05:00 · start only
“As the clock struck five, Kant was seated at the breakfast- table, where he drank what he called one cup of tea;”
Verbatim excerpt · Thomas De Quincey, adapting Wasianski and other early biographers
Line breaks and page markers omitted.
The Last Days of Immanuel Kant
In Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. II · Project Gutenberg eBook 6147
“The Last Days of Immanuel Kant” · account of the established daily routine before the later decline
Passage: Paragraph beginning “As the clock struck five”
Timing & context
Five o’clock is explicit. The name of the table does not imply a full meal; the account says he ate nothing until dinner. No tea duration is supplied.
De Quincey adapts German accounts by Wasianski, Jachmann, Borowski, and others; he was not an eyewitness. This calendar follows the habitual sequence in that adaptation. Lectures belong to teaching days, dinner length varied, and uncertain boundaries are labeled.
1795 is a representative display year selected by Typical Tuesday. The source describes an established teaching-era routine in the 1790s. It resumes Wasianski’s close association in 1790 and separately describes changes in old age; this is not the schedule of Kant’s final illness.